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Operationalising health inequalities across multiple policy levels in the UK: place, gaps and the missing social gradient

Background Health inequalities are widely studied but how governments operationalise (define and measure) the phenomenon is less well-understood. Existing research focuses mainly on health-led ...
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Effectiveness of a multi-component hand hygiene intervention in primary schools: a cluster randomised controlled trial in Nigeria

Background Handwashing with soap reduces infection transmission in schools, yet sustained hygiene service delivery is limited ...
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From market shocks to metabolic shocks: how acute workplace stress affects cardiometabolic biomarkers in employees

1 University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China Background Stress affects cardiometabolic health, but evidence linking objective, occupation-specific stressors to individual-level ...
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SMART lunch box intervention to improve the food and nutrient content of children's packed lunches: UK wide cluster randomised controlled trial

1 Nutritional Epidemiology Group, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK 2 Biostatistics Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Leeds, Leeds, ...
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Developmental origins of adult health and disease

Correspondence to: Professor D J P Barker Medical Research Council Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton SO9 4XY, UK; djpbmrc.soton.ac.uk The aim of this glossary is ...
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The socioeconomic status of older adults: How should we measure it in studies of health inequalities?

STUDY OBJECTIVE To identify which of seven indicators of socioeconomic status used singly or combined with one other would be most useful in studies of health inequalities in the older population.
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The association between school attendance, HIV infection and sexual behaviour among young people in rural South Africa

Objectives: To investigate whether the prevalence of HIV infection among young people, and sexual behaviours associated with increased HIV risk, are differentially distributed between students and ...
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Interactions between environmental pollutants and dietary nutrients: current evidence and implications in epidemiological research

Environmental pollutants and nutrients may be present in the same foodstuffs or dietary patterns; share internal mechanisms of transport, metabolism and cellular uptake; or target the same molecular ...
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Back to back housing, courts, and privies: the slums of 19th century England

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Evaluating the impact on physical inactivity of Together an Active Future, a partnership approach to physical activity promotion. A difference-in-differences study

Correspondence to Benjamin Barr, Department of Public Health, Policy and Systems, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK; benbarr{at}liverpool.ac.uk Background Low physical activity is one of ...
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Cognitive function trajectories and their determinants in older people: 8 years of follow-up in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Correspondence to Dr Paola Zaninotto, Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 7HB, UK; p.zaninotto{at}ucl.ac.uk Background Maintaining cognitive ...
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Association of retirement age with mortality: a population-based longitudinal study among older adults in the USA

3 School of Social and Human Health Sciences, College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA Correspondence to Chenkai Wu, School of Biological and ...